About Quote by Thom Gunn

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

— Tom Glazer

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so limited to…

— Martha Ronk

If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.

— Mary Webb

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a…

— Phyllis Gotlieb

I've learned that my readings of others' work often has little connection to their intentions. This doesn't mean that my response is wrong, and…

— Alice Fulton

I'm all in favor of poets telling about the process as much as they can. And many do.

— Pattiann Rogers

My life all-around is really different than a lot of other poets. Not poets that are parents, too, but just that I can hardly…

— Victoria Chang

I don't spend time thinking about an aesthetic out of which I create or an ideal toward which my body of work is heading.…

— Albert Goldbarth

Poets are supposed to be underappreciated, don't you know? There is always a strange reaction to those who become successful in their own lifetime,…

— John Cooper Clarke

I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the…

— Helen Dunmore